Knowledge Quotes - Page 18

• Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

  Richard Francis Burton

  Knows

  Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”

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• Every man of sound brain whom you meet knows something worth knowing better than yourself. A man, on the whole, is a better preceptor than a book. But what scholar does not allow that the dullest book can suggest to him a new and a sound idea?

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Book, Men, Knowing Better

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• There seems no limit to research, for as been truly said, the more the sphere of knowledge grows, the larger becomes the surface of contact with the unknown.

  William Cecil Dampier

  Science, Research, Limits

  William Cecil Dampier Dampier-Whetham M.A., F.R.S. (1931). “A History of Science and its Relations with Philosophy & Religion”

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• I am constantly amazed at how little painters know about painting, writers about writing, merchants about business, manufacturers about manufacturing. Most men just drift.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Writing, Men, Littles

  Sherwood Anderson (1953). “Letters: selected and edited with an introd. and notes by Howard Mumford Jones, in association with Walter B. Rideout”

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• We can say of Shakespeare, that never has a man turned so little knowledge to such great account.

  T. S. Eliot

  Men, Littles, Accounts

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• A paranoid is someone who has all the facts.

  William S. Burroughs

  Facts, Paranoid

  Quoted in Toronto Star, 22 Apr. 1989

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• We are in a position similar to that of a mountaineer who is wandering over uncharted spaces, and never knows whether behind the peak which he sees in front of him and which he tries to scale there may not be another peak still beyond and higher up.

  Max Planck

  Science, Space, Trying

  Max Planck (1959). “The new science: 3 complete works: Where is science going? The universe in the light of modern physics; The philosophy of physics”

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• We like to learn all we need from earlier generations, but we have to find out for ourselves what we need; nobody else can do that for us.

  Asger Jorn

  Needs, Generations, Can Do

  Asger Jorn, Per Hovdenakk, Stine Høholt, Arken museum for moderne kunst (Ishøj, Denmark), Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst (Amstelveen, Netherlands) (2002). “Asger Jorn”

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• A man only learns by two things; one is reading and the other is association with smarter people.

  Will Rogers

  Smart, Book, Communication

  "The Will Rogers Book".

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• Hasn't knowledge only crippled me from seeing truth? Is knowledge itself illusory?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Truth Is, Crippled, Seeing

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• One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

  J. Willard Gibbs

  Views, Simplicity, Research

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• The only journey of knowledge is from the depth of one being to the heart of another.

  Norman Mailer

  Heart, Journey, Depth

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.17, Random House

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• Historical judgement is not a variety of knowledge, it is knowledge itself; it is the form which completely fills and exhausts the field of knowing, leaving no room for anything else.

  Benedetto Croce

  Knowing, Leaving, Judgement

  Benedetto Croce (1941). “History as the Story of Liberty”

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• Images provide a knowledge that we can interiorize rather than 'apply,' can take to that place in ourselves where there is water and where reeds and grasses grow.

  Christine Downing

  Water, Reeds, Grass

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• The tiny, initial clue ... by allowing us to imagine what we do not know, stimulates a desire for knowledge.

  Marcel Proust

  Desire, Tiny, Clue

  Marcel Proust (2006). “Remembrance of Things Past”, p.236, Wordsworth Editions

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• Zeal will do more than knowledge.

  William Hazlitt

  Passion, Champion, Zeal

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.178

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• Alchemists turned into chemists
  when they stopped keeping secrets.

  Eric S. Raymond

  Keeping Secrets, Alchemist, Management

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• There's an awful lot of misunderstanding here about what being poor actually means. I don't think people understand that being poor means you have to work from dawn until dusk just to survive through the day. I think there's some notion that poor people lie about all day not doing anything. It is remarkable how many misconceptions there are here about life in the developing world and I think that that knowledge gap has done a lot to contribute to the imbalance quite frankly.

  Emma Thompson

  Lying, Mean, Thinking

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• We live on an island surrounded by a sea of ignorance. As our island of knowledge grows, so does the shore of our ignorance.

  John Archibald Wheeler

  Ocean, Learning, Ignorance

  "Scientific American", Vol. 267, 1992.

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• Man is an ignoramus athirst for knowledge.

  Charles Wagner

  Men

  Charles Wagner (1905). “Justice”, W. Briggs

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• What you know is a club for yourself, and what you don't know is a meat-ax for the other fellow.

  George Horace Lorimer

  Meat, Clubs, Knows

  George Horace Lorimer (2016). “Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to his Son”, p.56, Lulu.com

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• Men are more readily contented with no intellectual light than with a little; and wherever they have been taught to acquire some knowledge in order to please others, they have most generally gone on to acquire more, to please themselves.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Men, Light, Order

  Charles Caleb Colton (1824). “Lacon, Or, Many Things in a Few Words: Addressed to Those who Think”, p.247

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• You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.

  Beryl Markham

  People, Lifetime, Ends

  Beryl Markham (1994). “The Illustrated West with the Night”, Stewart, Tabori, & Chang

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• I know what I do not know.

  Socrates

  Knows

  "Apology". Book by Plato, 399 BC.

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• Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

  B. C. Forbes

  Wisdom, Men, Self

  B. C. Forbes (2005). “Keys to Success”, p.7, Lulu.com

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